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Record Store Day; Silversun Pickups Performing at Rasputin

Saturday is Record Store Day, the one day of the year that all of the independently owned record stores around the world come together with artists to celebrate music (and help keep the independent record store alive). A ‘holiday’ born in San Francisco, the first official Record Store Day was held at Rasputin Music with Metallica on April 19, 2008 and is now celebrated the third Saturday every April.

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A lot of record stores nationwide participated last year (such as Amoeba), but it just happened that Metallica played at one of participating stores, which, I should note wasn’t in San Francisco (but was in the region).